The 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony comes home to Cleveland Saturday and cleveland.com will be there live all night, bringing you the excitement from the stars' arrivals to exclusive backstage access.

Get live streaming video of the red carpet at Public Hall starting at 5 p.m. Then, join us for our pre-show at 7:30 p.m. with The Plain Dealer's Michael Norman and cleveland.com's Denise Polverine as we set the stage for the night and get to know the Rock Hall's Class of 2012. Watch exclusive live streaming video from backstage as the inductees meet the press in the media room, starting around 8:30 p.m.

Welcome to the Plain Dealer's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Yearbook Project.

Here you'll find every performer from every Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class. You can easily search for groups or individual artists by name, or check out every induction year since Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and other 1950s legends started things off in 1986. Paired with illustrations by Chris Morris, you'll find brief bios of each band and signature songs recommended by Plain Dealer staff.

We're calling this is a project because it's a work in progress. And we need your help.

Use the comments to tell us about your favorite memories about each band, or the time you drove five hours to see a concert, or that one time you met Bob Dylan on the street. We want to this be your story as well.

And we will continue to build the content on these pages by adding archived concert reviews, online videos, website links, photo galleries and more. So if you see something interesting out there about any of the inductees, let us know about it in the comments underneath each entry, and we'll add it to the post.

We're looking forward to what you have to share. Enjoy!

To get started, pick a year or a performer from the lists below.

Use the drop-down lists below to navigate to classes or individual inductees.

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Click a letter to shorten the player list. Click * to return to the full list.

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So 36 hours before the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, we go on a mission to find that beating heart. In Cleveland. Call it a mission from God.

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CLEVELAND -- The Beatles, Janis Joplin and the Jackson 5 all played there, back in the day.

But never before have so many superstar musicians descended in a single evening on Public Auditorium, where legendary heavy-metal band Metallica, groundbreaking hip-hop trio Run-D.M.C., Cleveland-bred R&B journeyman Bobby Womack and others were ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a black-tie gala Saturday night.

It was a portal to rock 'n' roll Valhalla -- and for the first time in 12 years, it led straight through our town.

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